The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 132
These folks affirm that they are very well assured of this, and the more as having drunk and eaten often at the fagot-maker’s house.
Who acts: folks · What happens: affirm, assure, have, eat · To what, where: folks
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 folks | det |
| 2 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 affirm | nsubj |
| 3 | affirm | affirm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 assured | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 assured | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 assured | aux:pass |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 well | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 assured | advmod |
| 9 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 affirm | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 assured | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 more | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 more | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 more | det |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 affirm | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 having | mark |
| 17 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 more | advcl |
| 18 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 having | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 eaten | cc |
| 20 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 drunk | conj |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 28 house | advmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 maker | det |
| 24 | fagot | fagot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 maker | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 fagot | punct |
| 26 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 maker | case |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eaten | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 affirm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affirm | present | this folks | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | assure | present · passive | folks = folk | of this; well property | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of this=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | this folks not said here | drunk property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | eat | participle | this folks not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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